Status Quo Ante
means media most likely
backs what’s goin’ on
Woman One tells me
(because her then-alive husband was
Army (oxymoron alert!) intelligence,
Belgium has no known border with a
fiction called Luxembourg.
Woman Two tells me
no, no never, not even ever
will a white periwinkle plant
throw pink or purple
flowers – they be separate species!
(like girrafes or gyraffes?)
She was not amused.
MA (English) ‘professor’
at the Orlando Junior College, adjunct
it later out-turns
who tooled ’round Snaffurd
on her pale blue Vespa and never
again looked left as I sat near my
white and purple posies from the same stems
reading somedamnbookorother.
Both, of course, were and I suspect still
are ‘corporate mad as March hares
(with due apologies to rabbits everywhere.)
For those of us who
were After-Maths’ what came next
no longer recess!
Since only a few
decades ago did we use
Jail lingo at schools?
We build schools with but two doors’
and fence the playgrounds all ’round!
“Higher Ed” not way
to shovel in some dope, dope!
but dopes teaching “U!”
“Higher Ed” not way
to shovel in some dope, dope!
but Dopes teaching ‘U’!
Pampered Professors tantrum
student-scholars to silence!
Lean back on this bench
and, Eureka! find some shade!
A self-taught marvel!
‘Em’ – not quite but close
Shirley McClain hides in her.
Groan: She*’s A Lady!
*(Youngest niece of two – nieces-2-pieces a la Snagglepus – in rapid pursuit of Doctorate in comparative literature. YesterThen she was upside down in my arms getting her first well-padded walkabout diaper-butt-swatted for snippityness in a snakefilled woods and now, there’s this gorgeous young lady smiling enigmas at me!)
The years* before Black
Friday a roller-coaster
of near constant flux!
*(Once knew an “honest” economics teacher in college who, when pressed, admitted that his field was full of charlatans. They’d use all kinds of mathematical proofs to explain the ups and downs of the markets they studied, and Wall Street was a favored playground. When I asked if all those high-falutin’ “tests” could be used to predict what would The Market do next, he’d grin and gulp his gin-n-tonic and say: “Nope! Nary a oncet!” And that fact remains true today: economics is a social science with pretentions of “Hard.” They just wanna sit with the big boys and girls in Physics, Chemistry and such in the faculty lounges, And That’s The Truuff!)
students are not a
process, but your empire of ‘crats
isn’t about them
*Florida Standards Assessment – a series of tests designed to enrich the test writers and graders and keep teachers from their real tasks. A bureaucrat’s heartthrob.
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